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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I want to be alone.

I think about dying. I’ve come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I’m relatively available, but not to live with.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.